Films with: Grant, Cary

Affair to remember

Nickie Ferrante and Terry McKay meet on an ocean liner and fall deeply in love. Though each is engaged to someone else, they agree to meet six months later at the Empire State Building if they still feel the same way about each other. But a tragic accident prevents their rendezvous, and the lovers' future takes an emotional and uncertain turn.

DVD 70

Awful truth

A separated couple sabotages each other's love affairs while waiting for their divorce decree to become final.

DVD 5839

Bishop's wife

Cary Grant stars as an angel who materializes in answer to the prayers of a harried young bishop, David Niven. Niven's efforts to raise money for a new cathedral have endangered his marriage to beautiful Loretta Young. Grant enters the bishop's household hoping to end the problems plaguing the family, but instead the bishop's negelected wife becomes infatuated with him.

DVD 374

Blonde Venus

American chemist Ned Faraday marries a German entertainer and starts a family. However, he becomes poisoned with radium and needs an expensive treatment in Germany to have any chance at being cured. Wife Helen returns to night club work to attempt to raise the money and becomes popular as the Blonde Venus. In an effort to get enough money sooner, she prostitutes herself to millionaire Nick Townsend.

DVD 12077

Bringing up Baby

An heiress determined to catch a zoologist uses her pet leopard, Baby, to get his attention.

DVD 5271

Brother, can you spare a dime?

This documentary juxtaposes newsreel footage, film clips and period music in an eye-opening look at the Great Depression. Many of the movies created in the 1930s featured strong social commentary, while others offered pure escapism and fed a fascination with a dazzling world out of reach to the everyday American. Through a contrast between the fantasy of film and the reality of everyday life, a fascinating perspective on the Great Depression and Hollywood's golden age is presented. Also includes political speeches by Franklin D. Roosevelt and others.

DVD 839

Charade

Comedy-mystery set in Paris about a young widow who, with the help of a handsome stranger, is trying to find the fortune her dead husband secreted away while being pursued by a trio of thugs.

DVD 136

Destination Tokyo

Twenty-four hours out of San Francisco, submarine captain Cassidy unseals his top-secret orders and reads two fateful words: Destination Tokyo. Set during the second World War, depicts the story of a submarine and its crew as they sail to Tokyo, Japan to sink Japanese warships.

DVD 8501

Eagle and the hawk

World War I drama about a reluctant hero struggling to deal with the horrors of war.

DVD 9762

Father Goose

During World War II, a South Seas wanderer is compelled by the Australian navy to act as a sky observer on a small island, where he finds himself in charge of six refugee schoolchildren and their headmistress.

DVD 806

Frank Capra's Arsenic and old lace

An easy going drama critic discovers that his kind and gentle Aunts Abby and Martha have a bizarre habit of poisoning gentlemen callers and burying them in the cellar.

DVD 1488

Gunga Din

Three English soldier comrades battle the punjabs in India while accompanied by their lowly water-bearer Gunga Din, who longs to be a fighter himself.

DVD 1017

His girl Friday

His girl Friday: An unscrupulous newspaper editor uses every dirty trick in the book to keep his ace reporter/ex-wife from retiring and remarrying in this twist on The Front Page. Cary Grant on film: A biography of the career of Cary Grant, with selections of scenes from his movies highlighting his career.

DVD 248

Holiday

Johnny gets engaged to the girl of his dreams, only to find out she's a millionaire's daughter whose father wants to be in control of their lives. Add to that a sister who is falling for Johnny, and he needs to decide who to marry and what to do.

DVD 9370

Leo McCarey's Once upon a honeymoon

Light comedy adventure about a charming journalist who saves a naive American woman from the clutches of her vicious Nazi husband.

DVD 8150

Mae West the glamour collection /

Mae West had an inexhaustibly playful interest in language, and a rare, sometimes perplexing, and even lofty wit, spiced by low-down slang. Well before the second wave of feminism, she wrote all her own material, insisted on total control of her work, and was wildly popular for a short time, right before the Production Code lowered the boom on adult attitudes being expressed in films. She made only 12 movies, but three are first-rate, and these were enough to seal her fame and launch a legend. In her first film appearance, "Night after night," a successful ex-boxer buys a high-class speakeasy and falls for a rich society girl. As the bold Tira in "I'm no angel," she works as a dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. For "Goin' to town," West goes Western. Cleo Borden is a former dance hall queen who has become newly rich. She falls for--and pursues--an upper crust Englishman. This is followed by "Go west young man," where she plays Mavis Arden, a movie star stranded in the country. To stifle her boredom, she trifles with a young man's affections. "My little chickadee" pairs West with a legend of similar stature, W.C. Fields. As Flower Belle Lee, she is rightly suspected of illicit relations with the Masked Bandit, and run out of Little Bend. Surprisingly, things change very little when she arrives in Greasewood City to start over.

DVD 10543

Monkey business

A chemist discovers a potent rejuvenation drug that restores youth but with some hilarious results.

DVD 308

Mr. Blandings builds his dream house

Cary Grant plays a successful New York advertising executive who wants to escape his current living situation. He decides to design his own dream house in the suburbs and the project turns wrong when the bills never end and the problems never stop.

DVD 6458

My favorite wife

A funny thing happens to Nick on his way to his honeymoon suite. He meets his wife. No, not his bride. He meets the wife that was lost at sea seven years ago and presumed dead.

DVD 9369

Night and day

"Swellegant and ellegant. Deluxe and delovely. Cole Porter was the most sophisticated name in the 20th century songwritting. And to play him on screen, Hollywood chose debonair icon Cary Grant."

DVD 5969

None but the lonely heart

The story of a Cockney wanderer and his mother set in London's pre-war East End.

DVD 8079

North by northwest

An ad executive is mistaken for a spy by foreign agents.

DVD 4213

Notorious

A beautiful woman with a tainted past is enlisted by American agent Devlin to spy on a ring of Nazis in post-war Rio. Her espionage work becomes life-threatening after she marries the most debonair of the Nazi ring, Alex. Only Devlin can rescue her, but to do so he must face his role in her desperate situation and acknowledge that he's loved her all along.

DVD 935

Only angels have wings

Story of the men working for a South American mail and freight business in the 1930's. They are trying to win a lucrative government contract to carry mail, and must perform satisfactorily despite bad weather, injuries, poor cash flow and a woman trying to win the boss's heart.

DVD 445

Penny serenade

A young couple experience a series of misfortunes, which puts a strain on their marriage.

DVD 453

Philadelphia story

A sophisticated romantic comedy about a rich, spoiled socialite who learns some things about who she is and what she really wants on the eve of her second marriage.

DVD 3487

She done him wrong

"Set in the 1890s, West plays a brash barroom entertainer with a soft spot for men in trouble, especially the mission director, young Cary Grant. She unknowingly gets caught up in a murder, as well as a white slavery ring, and sets about clearing things up as only Mae can. In between rescues she manages to perform some of her heated, hip-swinging classics including a steamy belting of 'Frankie and Johnnie."

DVD 9364

Suspicion

Alfred Hitchcock weaves a terrifying web of suspicion around a fragile young English bride and captures a classic suspense thriller. Joan Fontaine is the bride, a gently-reared heiress who fears she has married a murderer. Cary Grant is the husband, a dashing ne'er-do-well with a penchant for the high life--and a bank account that's strictly low-life.

DVD 5783

Talk of the town

A fugitive, falsely accused of murder, is aided by a schoolteacher and a Supreme Court nominee in George Stevens' serio-comic look at law and justice in America.

DVD 7021

That touch of mink

America's most eligible and richest bachelor makes the acquaintance of a naive country girl transplant to New York City by splashing mud all over the young lady. He sends his brilliant young financial advisor over to the automat, where her roommate is employed, to apologize unsuccessfully until the tycoon appears in person and charms the unemployed young lady into a date. Later, while on a trip in Bermuda she gets looped and breaks out in a rash. After a madcap romance they get married and when they return to Bermuda for their honeymoon, the groom has an attack of nerves and comes down with the blotches.

DVD 805

To catch a thief

John Robie is a reformed jewel thief who was once known as "The Cat." robie is suspected of a new rash of gem thefts in the luxury hotels of the French Riviera, and he must set out to clear himself. Meeting pampered heiress Frances, he sees a chance to bait the mysterious thief with her mother's fabulous jewels. His plan backfires, however, but Frances, who believes him guilty, proves her love by helping him escape.

DVD 5725

Toast of New York

"With his partner Nick Boyd (Cary Grant), 19th century Wall Street buccaneer Jim Fisk (Edward Arnold) employs high finance and low cunning to create an empire built on railroads, shipping lines, gold and flimflam. Boyd and Fisk are as thick as the thieves they are until they both fall for the same alluring, ambitious woman"--Container.

DVD 10883

Topper &, Topper returns.

Topper: fun-loving couple George and Marion cap off an evening of jazz and champagne by running their car into a tree. Finding themselves in limbo as ghosts, and deciding that heaven is just one good deed away, they turn their attention to their dull friend Cosmo Topper. But Topper is one stodgy banker, and it'll take all the high jinks the Kerbys can muster to haunt Topper into loosening up. Topper returns: Cosmo Topper is again tormented by a mischievous spirit, this time beautiful Gail who was accidentally murdered while vacationing with a wealthy friend, the intended victim. With Topper's help, Gail sets out to find her killer.

DVD 8412